Do you remember the cool synthesizer songs of the 1980’s? Back when big hair and keyboard-only bands ruled the pop music scene? Did you want to be your own singer-songwriter too? Maybe Falco doing “Rock Me Amadeus”?
Good stuff you guys. Reminds me of the early drum machines ~1980s, due to the lack of expressive response of the XO keyboard. What Dave Rossum did was to add expression by pasting a piezoelectric buzzer under the keyboard. This could be done with the XO as well, no? A little processing (diode, resistor and capacitor) between the piezo and the XO audio input, voila – envelope follower. You just need to incorporate the digitized amplitude from the audio input CAFE into the Csound engine – a “velocity response” keyboard. Let me know if you need more explanation, n’est ce pas? Merci – pj
[...] interesting being the TamTam SynthLab, a Max/MSP based visual synthesizer modeler. Here’s a video of SynthLab in action. There is another activity called Measure which is a very simple oscilloscope. The XO’s audio [...]
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Do you remember the cool synthesizer songs of the 1980’s? Back when big hair and keyboard-only bands ruled the pop music scene? Did you want to be your own singer-songwriter too? Maybe Falco doing “Rock Me Amadeus”?
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Good stuff you guys. Reminds me of the early drum machines ~1980s, due to the lack of expressive response of the XO keyboard. What Dave Rossum did was to add expression by pasting a piezoelectric buzzer under the keyboard. This could be done with the XO as well, no? A little processing (diode, resistor and capacitor) between the piezo and the XO audio input, voila – envelope follower. You just need to incorporate the digitized amplitude from the audio input CAFE into the Csound engine – a “velocity response” keyboard. Let me know if you need more explanation, n’est ce pas? Merci – pj
Comment by pj noxon — January 19, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
[...] interesting being the TamTam SynthLab, a Max/MSP based visual synthesizer modeler. Here’s a video of SynthLab in action. There is another activity called Measure which is a very simple oscilloscope. The XO’s audio [...]
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Probably similar to synthedit in its concepts,I currently use synthedit to make synths and vst plugins.
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